WHY IT’S OK IF AN ELEPHANT SITS ON MY LAPTOP
By Rick Mark | Service Area Manager
Are you ‘Clouded’ by today’s virtual technology? If you are, then dropping your laptop in a pool of water, out of a moving car, or even if it was stolen, wouldn’t really matter would it? Of course not! If you have embraced cloud computing, then your data is still safe in the Cloud, not where it doesn’t belong – on your laptop!
I know this sounded strange, but storing your data and running your applications in the Cloud can give you the ultimate in disaster recovery potential, data security and protection, and just about ‘anywhere use and access’ to your corporate data and applications. Today’s advanced applications delivery and integration services in the Cloud are managing the loss of data risk for you, effectively and efficiently
Cloud services from hosted Exchange email, accounting and ERP applications, to data backup and archiving tools are just the tip of the iceberg. If you are not sure you trust 3rd party providers just yet, well, you can move your corporate server architecture to a local datacenter to accomplish the same thing. Granted the latter solution still keeps you focusing on I.T. versus your business objectives, but at least you can minimize your carbon footprint and give yourself some better choices in how to utilize that expensive office space.
The Real Estate advantage is huge for Cloud adopters. No longer do you need extensive environmental controls, enterprise power redundancy, and complex business continuity planning and physical security. Whether you host your own or utilize one of the many “X as a Service” offerings, Cloud adoption will minimize your reliance on that server room and the responsibility and maintenance that goes with it. Even if you start small by testing the waters with outsourcing your email services, the amount of overhead and management cost you will save will be noticeable almost immediately.
When you lose that laptop, or its hard drive dies, or it’s just time to upgrade to a new computer – think of how much work you have to do now to migrate your data and applications, versus just turning the new computer on and browsing the internet to your provider…sound easy? It is and sure can be that easy.
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